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End of the "Lone Asteroid" Theory?
hussar writes "This BBC article reports on research that suggests the dinosaurs were not killed off by the Chicxulub asteroid's immediate effects but ultimately fell to evironmental stresses caused by a second asteroid that hit about 300,000 years later. The second impact may have been in the Indian Ocean."
This brings back memories.
I remember having a beer at my buddy Vijay's place in India (he was an outsourced Fern & Brush Maintainer for the Pangea Shrubbery Co. in the Late Cretaceous) Anyhow, I was working on my tan as the sun's light had only recently begun shining through to the Earth's surface thanks to the Chicxulub hit years before.
Vijay had just finished telling me a great joke about his dog having no nose when we saw a massive asteroid coming down. Vijay just muttered "Oh bugger, not again." The sad part of the whole thing was that I had tanned lying on my stomach that morning. My face and frontside were ghostly white for ages.
I was a laughing stock for most of the Tertiary period..
Trolling is a art,
We all know there was an asteroid that came from the grassy knoll.
If only Bruce Willis had lived back then...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
"from the this-changes-everything-and-nobody-cares dept."
I'm thinking maybe the dinosaurs involved cared just a little...
dinosaur comics
Obviously it was the second asteroid on the grassy knoll!
yeah, i could have sworn god created the earth less than 10,000 years ago... hmmm somethings fishy here.
Hmm...I suppose that would make Mars the grassy knoll, right?
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Dont be a fool. Religious fanatics dont believe in dinosaurs.. first of all, to them earth is only 10,000 years old, second, dinos arent mentioned in the bible.. its all a conspiracy by satan.. the bones we find are just mixes of elephants and alligator bones.
Actually, they couldn't reproduce anymore because they couldn't afford all the license fees to copy their genome ...
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Indian Ocean eh?
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I presume these Indians had something to do with the massive extinction of US Tech jobs as well?
First the poor dinosaurs, and now poor US geeks..
And yes, I am Indian, the real deal, the kind Columbus went searching for..thankfully never found.
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The second impact may have been in the Indian Ocean.
I always though the Second Impact was caused by one of the Angels...
No wonder I was so confused by the end.
This sig is only here so people stop skipping the last lines of my posts.
See? The dinosaurs fell victim to outsourcing to india.
Hmmm ... Kangaroos weren't mentioned in the bible as well. Nor was Australia. Probably the evil non-believers invented australia to hide the fact that earth really is flat :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Well actually, some of them believe the dinos got wiped out by the Great Flood. To think that all those jews before Noah had to go around dodging dinosaur feet..
The second impact may have been in the Indian Ocean.
I had always thought the Second Impact was in Antarctica when Adam got pissed and melted the entire continent.
I know I'd be stressed if I lived to be 300,000 years old.
That the climate change that killed off dinosaurs was caused by greenhouse gasses from American SUVs.
I was only kidding about the Australians - forgot to add that as a PS on the last post. Kangaroos definitely do the bidding of the Prince of Darkness, though.
Do we seriously have to believe that this one asteroid entered the neck of Tyrannosaurus Rex, pierced the left lung of Triceratops and then PAUSED IN MIDAIR to hit a pterodactyl in the eye? I say NO gentlemen. There had to be a second asteroid posted on the grassy knoll.
In your heart you know it's flat (This appeals to the Discordian in me.)
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
There must have been a second asteroid.
After all, everyone knows that the JFK 'Second Gunman' Theory is 100% accurate.;-)
You forgot:
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Am I the only one that saw this and thought for a second that the dinosaurs might have been wiped out by an asteroid named Chixclub?
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Yeah, if you can't explain everything with the theory of ONE asteroid, TWO may be the solution!
Add asteroids until it works!
In America, even extinction is outsourced to India.
NMG
For the last time, Linux is not a derived work of BSD or any other "Unix". You SCOG astroturfers make me ill.
Now their stealing our asteroid collisions too!
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Nickels are more likely to land heads down, right?
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